This Earthly Globe: A Venetian Geographer and the Quest to Map the World Fiction_Gift_Guide easy-to-read (and then pass on

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE PEN/FAULKNER AWARD • The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of American Pastoral delivers “a master novelist's haunting parable about our troubled modern moment" (The Wall Street Journal)

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This Earthly Globe: A Venetian Geographer and the Quest to Map the World Fiction_Gift_Guide easy-to-read (and then pass onFrom the author of the best selling A Venetian Affair (A narrative of novelistic resonance . . . Astonishing The Washington Post), the story of an Italian Renaissance book editor who introduced European minds to the wider world through his passion for geography In the autumn of 1550, a thick volume containing a wealth of geographical information new to Europeans, with startling wood cut maps of Africa, India and Indonesia, was published in Venice